Suez Canal reduces fees, will add art for cruise ships

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority has reduced transit fees for cruise ships in a bid to attract more traffic and boost the country’s sagging tourism sector.
This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Malaysia-flagged oil tanker Bunga Kasturi sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, w
This picture taken on Nov. 17, 2019, shows the Malaysia-flagged oil tanker Bunga Kasturi sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration. - KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images
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CAIRO — The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has halved transit fees for cruise ships that dock for a minimum of 48 hours in at least two Egyptian ports as the country promotes tourism.

SCA head Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie said during a meeting with a delegation from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Nov. 11 that the SCA is offering incentives to encourage cruise ships to dock at Egyptian ports on the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

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